The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-07-14

discovering lt' "a cou6u 10 d Soou Gu'n5'
It.proyokes sympathy and alarm mixed.
can cough just like a consumptive and
have the tears running out of my eyes.
After the yerandas were fixed up and
the floors painted sweetgum color and
the front blinds painted with a fresh,
bright coat Of green, it was hinted to me
that our bedroom ought to be repapered,
and that ifI would buy the paper the
girls would put it on, and the ceiling
overhead ought to be painted jast to
cover up the fly specka, if for nothing
else. So surrendered to that, and
when the ceiling was finished they told
the painter to keep on with the doors and
windows and mantel, so as not to waste
the paint he had left, and so, of course, l
admired theis frugal minds, and then the
paperiug was next in order, and they
said 1 vas not to be bothered, but I did
have to fix up the .scafold and arrange
the plank. to paste on and noFs all the
furniture to one side, and when they got
through had to move it all back again
and keep moving it, from Dan ITO Beer
sheba, and Chen at last move The scaf.
folding and doors and clean up the room,
and it is all just as nice and new, and
they are all 80 happy, and the whole
room didn't cost but few dollars, and
SO I amhappy, too. And they have been
talking about that old stable for two
months that great big old stable that is
forty feet front was right in a front line
with the dwelling, the mansion and the
new yerandsS, and twas too big aud too
diIapidated, and so they got me to walk
around in the rear and look at place,
and I walked and I looked, not that they
wanted it moved right away, but some
time when ! was;able. That's the idea
some time when I was able. That
always gets me. No ambitious lord is
willing for his lady to believe he is not
able to do anything in season. 1t is his
business to be able. He promised to be
able when he married her. It was i'm.
piled if not expressed that he would
always be able to crafty her reasonable
wishes, and it was certainly reasonable
to want that old stable moved. So I
have been week at that and believe
now that had rather build a new one
than move an old one. But it is all
done and the female women of my house.
hold are satisfied and they take all the
visitors around 10 see the improvements,
and listen to the compliments on the
sly and enjoy them. What is the next
thing on the programme I don't know,
but there is some whispering going on
about the old fashioned stairs. I have
built dining room and pantry and
double doors to the psrlor and our home
is now comfortable, and ifit is not hap
py it ought to be. I wish that every
family in the land had as good a one.
Now they say that where the stable was
and the lot attached is the very place for
garden-a garden for flowers and small
fruits, and so I have all that work in
prospect and if there is any stopping
place don't know it. There never has
been any. It took me two hours yester-
day to fix the rollers on the washstand
and the bureau and to plane off and sand
paper the drawers so they would open
and shut easily. lam q. pretty good car
penter and they all know it, and when /
hear them say with faith and pride that
papa can fix it, I never back out, but go
at it. There was rat hole in the pam
try and as fast as I stopped it up with
mortar he guawed it out again, but I
fixed him at last. 1t won't do for the
paternal ancestor to admit that he can't
do such things, whether he graduated at
school of technology or not. Some
times when I hint that we are getting
old and it don't matter about fixing up,
she says that old people are the very ones
to fix up and have nice things so as to
compensate for the loss of youth and hi.
larity. have been reading a pamphlet
about the world coming to au end in q
few years, and I have tried to distract
her attention from sublunary things, but
she says she remembers the Millerites
very we'll. and how they sold out their
possessions up North and bought white
robes-ascension robes, and built high
towers and scafolds to fly from, and had
the day and the night all fixed, but the
Saviour didn't come after them and they
didn't ascend at all.
Well, that was wonderful excite
ment. 1t was in 1913, and there were
over fifty thousand converts who got
ready to ascend. Miller had studied the
prophecies of Daniel and st. John, until
he was an enthusiast and believed all he
said, but Miller was no theologian, NJ
scholar, and sensible people paid no at
tention to him. Next came Cumming
the great Scotch preacher, who though
he had solved the prophecies, but he to'
was mistaken. And now comes Rev
Mr.. Baxeter, of the Church of England
who publishes the Christian Herald il
London, and has three hundred thou
sand subscribers, and has $50 orthodox
ministers to indorse his solution of tn
prophecy. His pamphlet is the mos